D-Day and Beyond

A D-day survivor tells how he later became commander of the just-liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp, and how that experience set him on a journey of spiritual exploration-in an effort to understand what we can say about God after the Holocaust. Meeting the Russian prisoners at Buchenwald, and learning of Stalin’s similar camps, he decided to make Russia’s problems his own. That decision eventually took him to the Kremlin where he met Gorbachev and Sakharov. Throughout, he describes his discovery of “a down-to-earth spirituality,” one that offers a new approach to reconciling science and religion.

Author Biography

After a 25-year career in business, since 1981 Clint Gardner has served as President of East-West Bridges for Peace and related organizations that have sponsored Russian-American citizen exchanges and conferences. With his wife Libby, in 1956 he founded Shopping International, a national mail order company that sold handicrafts which the Gardners bought on regular world-wide buying trips. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College (class of 1944), he studied Russian at the Sorbonne in 1948 before accepting the position of Managing Editor of the US Military Government’s newspaper, Die Neue Zeitung, in Berlin.